"Weird" movies you will admit to liking

[FatAndFaithless]

Oh, another one I forgot. I know people hate on it, but I actually really really enjoyed Swordfish.

[Jaysyn]

Lost Highway - another David Lynch movie.

Brazil - Terry Gilliam

12 Monkeys - also Terry Gilliam

[Minimalist]

I'm also a fanatic for MST3K - particularly "Prince of Space."

[JesusHChrist]

Lost Highway - another David Lynch movie.

Brazil - Terry Gilliam

12 Monkeys - also Terry Gilliam

I like all of those, but Lost Highway takes the cake for weird.

[Jaysyn]

I like all of those, but Lost Highway takes the cake for weird.

"This is where mechanical excellence and 1,400 horsepower pays off."

[Jackalope]

Repo Man.

[ManMachine]

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And to start,

I LOVED Memento, one of the best movies EVER.

Dark City, too, and no idea why it never achieved wide acclaim as a Sci-fi masterpiece.

Mysterious Skin, but a caution, the subject matter is intense and the film explores the results of horrific child abuse- Not a film for everyone

Gummo, flawed, but compellingly disturbed. Dirty bathwater scene is a classic

Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator, just good old fun with zombies

Dead Alive, yep, Peter Jackson made this. Lawnmower scene set a record for amount of fake blood used. 'Rebirth' scene is as sick as anything ever filmed.

Crash, Cronenberg's masterpiece. Gory car accidents as fetish for freaks, James Spader does something really nasty, just barely off camera in a Lincoln convertible similar to the one Kennedy was shot in. Twisted, sick, bizarre and believable, a superlative achievement in filmmaking Not to be confused with the racial attitude exploring Crash film, which I like too, but it's not suitable for this thread.

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Weird movies I like ...

Primer - top drawer independent time-travel sci-fi with dialogue almost entirely in technobabble.

Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi - Godfrey Reggio's trilogy of remarkable visual tone poems each with its own sublime soundtrack by my favourite composer, Phillip Glass

Tideland - misunderstood and much maligned masterpiece by Terry Gilliam in which a small child learns how to live around the bodies of her dead parents ... actually, any film by Terry Gilliam, he's a genius.

The Machinist - Christian Bale goes the extra mile to play an emaciated machinist who has not slept for over a year due to dark shadows in his past.

Cat People (remake) - a Paul Schrader directed erotic horror from the 80's about an incestuous race of , yep you guessed it, cat people

The Company of Wolves - coming-of-age gothic fantasy horror from 1984.

Labyrinth - muppets and David Bowie, what's not to love.

The Dark Crystal - muppets without David Bowie in a twisted fantasy saga

Decalogue - Krzysztof Kieślowski's ten part series of muted art-house shorts

One Night on Earth - 5 part movies about 5 taxi journeys with an extraordinary soundtrack by Tom Waits

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Nagisa Oshima's strange, haunting story set during WWII where the commander of a Japanese POW camp (the simply awesome Ryuichi Sakamoto) finds himself falling in love with one of his trouble-making Australian prisoners (the ubiquitous Mr Bowie) and to cope with it he becomes violently aggressive toward the object of his affection, meeting out grim punishments to all who get in his way, leaving the second-in-command of the British prisoners (Tom Conti) to try and keep the peace. Also has one of the best songs ever to come out of the 80's, Forbidden Colours by Sylvian and Sakamoto.

Kung Fu Hustle - Stephen Chow's comedy, martial art masterpiece

I could go on and on (I normally do) but I'll leave it there for now...

MM

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Lost Highway - another David Lynch movie.

Brazil - Terry Gilliam

12 Monkeys - also Terry Gilliam

Have you seen The Zero Theorem yet? I loved it.

MM

[CindysRain]

K-Pax
The Cell
House
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Galaxy Quest
Let Me In

[Dolorian]

Others I didn't mention in my first post:

- Mulholland Dr.
- Oldboy
- Lady Vengeance
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- Melancholia
- A Clockwork Orange
- Dr. Strangelove
- Blue Velvet
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Noroi: The Curse

[Rev. Rye]

Decalogue - Krzysztof Kieślowski's ten part series of muted art-house shorts

The only weird thing about Dekalog is that Kieslowski was allowed to make such a religious film in Communist Poland.

Of course, here are some of the Weirdest films in my considerable collection.

• A Clockwork Orange: My All-time Favourite film. 'Nuff said.
  
• El Topo and The Holy Mountain: Cinematic mysticism that simply must be seen to be believed.
  
• FDR: AMerican Badass. It features werewolves, wheelchairs with machine guns, and guys pooping in a jar, and yet, it's still better than the OTHER recent movie about FDR.
  
• Bratz: Simply the most insane So-Bad-It's-Good movie of the Millennium. And that includes The Room. And once you see the Mexicans with the live-in Mariachi bands and the clique of kids who dress like dinosaurs, you'll see why.
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: This movie HAD to be weird, or else it wouldn't be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
  
• 5000 Fingers of Dr. T: It can't decide whether it wants to be a low-budget musical, a live-action adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book that never got written, or what.
  
• Bruno: How can a movie with a talking penis NOT be weird?
  
• Black Swan: My parents were curious as to WHY I dragged them to seeing it when it was released, but once they got to the body horror and the lesbian sex, they figured it out.
  
• Dead Ringers: I love movies about mutant genitalia. Who doesn't?
  
• The Ruling Class: After the Earl of Gurney dies of autoerotic asphyxiation, his son becomes the new Earl. Unfortunately, he thinks he's Jesus. He is then brainwashed to think he's Jack the Ripper. Everyone's happy!
  
• Tromeo and Juliet: A modern-day adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with Gore and tits. A great inspiration for me.
  
• Bronson: Somehow, Tom Hardy is more disturbing in this role than he was as Bane.
  
• Natural Born Killers: It's the most expensive student film ever made...
  
• ... at least until Fight Club got greenlit five years later.
  
• A Serious Man. For whatever reason, I've watched this three times in the last month, and it's quickly becoming one of my all-time favourite films.
  
• Billy Jack: It's either a hippy-dippy movie about standing up against THE MAN, a drama about the hippy-dippy ex-Green Beret kung Fu star who helps people while predicting the Waco sieve, or a martial arts movie.
  
• Zardoz: If you know the name, do I really have to explain why this is weird?
  

Maybe one of these days, I'll start up a Tumblr blog about weird movies, books, and music, et al. Maybe call it "Stop doing Drugs and start becoming them."